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...apiece, even the participants were disposed to grump and spit. "It's unfair to the schoolkids, the eight-year-olds," said Mets First Baseman Keith Hernandez, 33. "They can't stay up all night." Red Sox Manager John McNamara, a pragmatist in most things, was heard to mutter, "I suppose I'll get somebody mad by saying it, but I did notice that today was a beautiful day. I thought about what a beautiful day it would be to play baseball...
...next time you walk in the shadow of glass and steel skyscrapers that tower over cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, mutter a little prayer of thanks--or even a curse--to Harvard's Graduate School of Design...
...next time you walk in the shadow of glass and steel skyscrapers that tower over cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, mutter a little prayer of thanks--or even a curse--to Harvard's Graduate School of Design...
LALO: Symphonie Espagnole; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen. Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Orchestre National de France (Angel; LP or CD). The Symphonie Espagnole is a puzzlement. Neither a symphony nor a concerto, and no more authentically Spanish than Chabrier's Espana or Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole, Lalo's five-movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose...
...Capitol Hill, Speaker O'Neill recessed the House and, shaking his head, could only mutter, "Terrible thing. Terrible thing." He issued a statement expressing his awe of the space pioneers: "We salute those who died performing exploits that people my age grew up reading about in comic books...